Thunderbird
Sooooo I've set up Thunderbird so I can save all my hermes emails on to my computer. This is pretty damn technical for me as I'm not great with computers by any stretch of the imagination (and yes I realise there's probably half a dozen easier ways to go about this, please don't tell me what they are as I'd rather live in blissful ignorance! ;) ). Anyway, I clicked the "Get mail" button about half an hour ago and it's still thinking. I realise I have over 6500 emails sitting in webmail so what's your guess on how long it should take? :) It hasn't told me how many emails there are or produced any sort of meaningful progress bar (apart from the scrolly thing in the bottom that just lets you know it's still doing things) and I don't know if it's supposed to. There will be a prize for the nearest comment as long as it doesn't just fail utterly instead...